Perfect. The drug hadn’t even been properly tested yet.
What better opportunity could there be?
Tomorrow, one lucky volunteer would be randomly selected as the test subject.
But before that, there was something far more important to deal with—
Recovering the Lin family’s stolen property from Su Yong.
Now that she had the space, everything would be much easier.
Lin Yuqing retrieved a bottle of sleeping pills from the laboratory and stepped out into the living room.
As she approached, she could hear the family of three talking.
Since Su Jinjin had already drugged the milk, they naturally assumed Lin Yuqing was unconscious and made no effort to lower their voices.
Yang Lan urged anxiously,
“Hurry up and get her out of here. Who knows when the Lin family will come looking for her? I’ve been nervous all day.”
“What are you worried about?”
Su Yong laughed.
“Running away from an arranged marriage is humiliating. Do you think the Lin family would dare make a public spectacle out of searching for her?”
“If things get blown up, it’ll only ruin that little bastard’s reputation.”
The three of them burst into laughter.
Halfway through, Su Jinjin remembered something she had overheard earlier outside the bedroom.
“Mom, Dad, guess why Lin Yuqing made Brother Shuwen write those letters?”
“Weren’t they family letters to reassure Commander Lin?” the couple asked.
“What family letters?”
Su Jinjin sneered gleefully.
“She wanted love letters from Brother Shuwen as evidence.”
“So when people find out she ran away from her engagement, it won’t sound as embarrassing.”
“Bah!”
Yang Lan spat in disgust.
“She already ran off with a man and still wants to protect her reputation?”
After a moment, she seemed to remember something and shot Su Yong a glare.
“Just my luck!”
“That shameless woman stole my man back then, and the bastard daughter she gave birth to turned out exactly the same!”
“She’s nothing but a debt collector!”
“The moment she came back, she started taking money from this family!”
After stealing from the Lin family for years, they had long since convinced themselves the property belonged to them.
Lin Yuqing curled her lips into a cold smile.
Then she heard Yang Lan continue,
“You’d better pray Jinjin successfully marries into the Lin family. Otherwise, those five thousand yuan will have been wasted!”
The conversation bounced between old grudges and money.
Su Yong, never known for his patience, slammed his hand on the table.
“You’re so shortsighted!”
“Isn’t five thousand yuan worth buying a Commander for a father?”
Then he turned to Su Jinjin.
“Remember this. Once you get to the Lin family, make sure you win Commander Lin’s favor.”
“Why would she need to?” Yang Lan interrupted confidently.
“Every time Jinjin visited the Lin family, they bought her gifts.”
“They already adore our daughter!”
The shamelessness in this household truly ran in the family.
Lin Yuqing snorted.
In the original story, Lin Yinyin had died only a few months after marrying Commander Lin.
At the time, Su Yong had worried that the Lin family would eventually send Lin Yuqing back.
He had even secretly decided that if they did, he would sell her to traffickers.
To his surprise, Commander Lin never once considered sending her away.
Instead, he loved and cherished her as if she were his own daughter.
No—
He treated Lin Yuqing even better than he treated his three biological sons.
Once Su Yong noticed this, he quickly began sending Su Jinjin to the military compound under the excuse that twin sisters shouldn’t grow apart.
In reality, he was shamelessly clinging to the Lin family’s influence.
Lin Yuqing was the treasure of the entire Lin household.
Since she liked spending time with Su Jinjin, Commander Lin naturally extended some of that affection to Su Jinjin as well.
Clothes.
Snacks.
Daily necessities.
Anything Lin Yuqing received, the Lin family would buy an extra copy for Su Jinjin.
And yet kindness had only raised a wolf.
Remembering the original owner’s tragic fate, Lin Yuqing clenched her fists tightly.
At that moment, Su Yong’s smug voice drifted over from the living room.
“And another thing.”
“You foolish woman.”
“Who told you I actually intended to let her keep those five thousand yuan?”
Yang Lan gasped.
Su Yong chuckled maliciously.
“Why do you think I made you take her to withdraw cash instead of leaving it in the bank?”
“Tonight, after she’s asleep, go into her room and steal the money back.”
“Steal it?”
Yang Lan hesitated.
“What if she notices?”
“Then let her call the police.”
“The money doesn’t have her name written on it.”
“How would the police know who the thief is?”
So that was his plan.
Lin Yuqing almost laughed out loud.
Good.
Who ended up stealing from whom remained to be seen.
The laboratory contained every kind of medicine imaginable.
While the family was busy celebrating in the living room, Lin Yuqing slipped into their bedroom and added sleeping pills to their water cups.
Compared to the cheap veterinary sedatives Su Jinjin had used, her twenty-first-century sleeping medication was on an entirely different level.
She had been extremely generous with the dosage.
None of the three would be waking up tonight.
At eleven o’clock that night, surrounded by the sound of snoring, Lin Yuqing opened her eyes.
Most apartment units in the building had only two bedrooms.
But thanks to Su Yong’s shameless habit of bragging everywhere about being related to the Lin family, he had managed to secure a director-level position and been assigned a larger three-bedroom apartment.
The smallest room at the end of the hallway served as his study.
Lin Yuqing quietly pushed open the door.
The layout was simple:
A wooden desk.
A chair.
And a large five-drawer cabinet.
The cabinet was locked.
Fortunately, it was an old-fashioned spring lock.
No challenge at all.
She inserted a hairpin, twisted it slightly—
Click.
The lock opened.
The drawers were packed full.
What she found inside was eye-opening.
Stacks and stacks of cash.
Hundreds of ten-yuan notes bundled together into neat bricks.
The entire drawer was crammed with money.
With a wave of her hand, everything disappeared into her space.
At least ten thousand yuan.
Most likely all dirty money.
Su Yong was cautious enough to know that keeping it in a bank was risky.
Several small wooden boxes.
The carvings on them matched the box that had held the jade bracelet.
These were undoubtedly Lin Yinyin’s dowry items.
Lin Yuqing carefully opened them.
Inside were precious jewelry pieces:
Jade pendants.
Gold necklaces.
And even a sapphire.
The sapphire looked ancient and clearly belonged to an antique collection.
Beneath the jewelry was a document.
A prenuptial agreement signed by Lin Yinyin and Su Yong before their marriage.
An unexpected bonus.
Everything went straight into the space.
She could smell medicinal herbs before even opening it.
Inside were rare treasures:
Wild mountain ginseng.
Rhinoceros horn.
Tiger bone.
Natural bezoar.
The drawer was packed so tightly that it nearly jammed when pulled open.
There were also prepared medicines:
Angong Niuhuang Pills.
Suhexiang Pills.
Zixue Dan.
All priceless traditional remedies.
Many of them had become impossible to reproduce in later generations because the original wild ingredients no longer existed.
As a pharmaceutical researcher, Lin Yuqing’s eyes lit up instantly.
Didn’t matter how much there was.
She packed everything away.
This one surprised her.
The drawer was stuffed with paper.
A huge amount of paper.
The entire cabinet was obviously being used to store valuables.
Why dedicate an entire drawer to scrap paper?
Something felt off.
She picked up a few sheets and examined them closely.
A moment later, she spotted a signature in the corner.
Lin Yinyin.
Her eyes widened.
These weren’t scraps at all.
They were research notes.
Glyphosate.
Cyclohexanedione compounds.
Kasugamycin.
Agricultural chemical formulas.
Lin Yinyin had been researching pesticides and fungicides.
The discovery thrilled Lin Yuqing.
At a time when food shortages remained a major national problem, crop yields were critical.
In North China, wheat was highly vulnerable to stripe rust, a disease spread by airborne spores that could devastate harvests.
Soybeans and sorghum in the Northeast faced similar threats, including head smut disease, which farmers called “black grain.”
In severe years, entire harvests could be wiped out.
Most farmers had no effective solutions and could only pray for good fortune.
Yet Lin Yinyin had been researching agricultural chemicals.
Agricultural science and pharmaceutical science shared many overlapping principles.
The notes were detailed and comprehensive.
If she studied them carefully, she might actually be able to understand and continue the research.
She carefully stored every sheet inside the space.
Only one item sat inside.
A ledger.
As she flipped through it, her expression darkened.
It contained detailed records of every illegal transaction involving restricted chemical materials that Su Yong had handled over the past five years.
Methylamine.
o-Chlorobenzaldehyde.
Methanol solutions.
These weren’t ordinary industrial materials.
They were precursor chemicals used in drug manufacturing.
Su Yong’s audacity was unbelievable.
The surprises tonight just kept coming.
After storing the ledger in her space, Lin Yuqing felt thoroughly satisfied with her haul.
Before leaving the study, she deliberately ransacked the room, making it look as though a thief had broken in.
Then she quietly slipped away.
Now?
Now she was genuinely looking forward to sunrise.
She couldn’t wait to see the look on Su Yong’s face when he discovered everything was gone.